En Irlande, John et Jerome O’Brien sont des convaincus du pâturage

L'Éleveur Laitier

Au sud-ouest de l’Irlande, John et Jerome O’Brien ont 200 vaches sur 80 ha de prairies. Ils veulent le maintien de la dérogation à la directive européenne sur les nitrates pour poursuivre leur système de production basé sur le pâturage .

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00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada

00:30I've been farming with six year with my parents on a grass-based system in the south of Ireland

00:38I took over the family farm with my mother back in 1980

00:43Unfortunately my father was killed in a farm accident in 1979

00:48So I was young, I was only 15 when that happened

00:52So I finished my secondary school and went to agricultural school and then came home farming

00:59We mill 200 crossbred cow on 80 hectare of grassland only

01:05So there is 55 hectare on the grazing platform for the cow

01:11And there is 25 hectare 3 km away for silage production

01:18The cow breed is Holstein Frisian

01:24Holstein Frisian with jersey and jersey cross

01:29We use New Zealand genetics

01:31I like this genetic to suit our system of grass-based production

01:36And producing high quality and high level of milk solid of fat and protein

01:42In Ireland we are paid on A plus B minus C payment system

01:48So this is protein plus butter fat minus volume of water

01:53So the type of cow we have

01:57It suits this system

01:59As they produce higher level of fat and protein kg

02:03With less or volume

02:05So it enables us to get better milk price than our society cooperative

02:11Big discussion at the moment is derogation

02:18And it's a very active and lively discussion in Ireland at the moment

02:22Currently we're at 250 here on this farm

02:26We're likely to go back to 220

02:29Ireland has to have a derogation

02:32Because as you can see our whole farming system is based on grass

02:36And eating grass and growing grass

02:37Growing clover with grass

02:39And if we take derogation out of Irish farming

02:44It puts us into an indoor system

02:46It makes us very inefficient

02:48If we lose derogation on this farm

02:51It means we lose 50 cows probably

02:54We either lose the cows or we have to rent more land

02:59Now renting more land puts an added cost on the farm

03:02Which is not needed

03:04Losing 50 cows means that the farm becomes less viable

03:09It's less viable for me and Jerome

03:11There's two of us working and living off the farm

03:14So we need what cows we have

03:17And we need the income we have

03:18To have the whole farm be viable

03:20From a national perspective

03:22This whole discussion has the potential of destroying Irish agriculture

03:29And I'm very passionate about this

03:31I think we're working very hard to improve water quality of course

03:35And we're working very hard to improve the environment

03:37We're doing an awful lot of work in that whole area

03:39Using protected urea

03:41Using multi-species sorge

03:43Using clover

03:44Making more use of slurry

03:47At better times of the year

03:51But there's only so much we can do

03:54So it's very important that we retain derogation in Ireland

03:57If we lose derogation

03:58It questions the whole viability of agriculture going forward

04:04And it's all areas of agriculture

04:05Not alone dairy

04:06But it destroys all areas of agriculture

04:08So it's vitally important that we retain derogation

04:12So the fish can last our way

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